>> bill clinton going to minnesota and buying time in minnesota. minnesota has not been considered anything but an obama lock. they're buying time, obama campaign in michigan. that wasn't considered something that the president -- a state that the president should worry about and finally biden being sent back to his hometown of scranton, p.a., working class joe being asked to go there. any time, shawn, they go back to places which were supposed to be in their pocket, that's trouble. >> all right. thanks so much for breaking it down for us tonight, mark plotkin. >>> the sewage treatment system that serves the vast majority of homes in howard county is back in operation now. tens of millions of gallons of raw sewage, though, discharged into the little patuxent river before electricity was restored to the plant. tonight county officials are asking pointed questions. fox 5's john henrehan has more. >> reporter: officials in howard county call this complex their water reclamation plant because after sewage is treated the water is clean enough to dischar